Fighting poverty

Conditions among the poor in California, especially among children, have worsened significantly during the recession and a full-time job no longer ensures not living in poverty, according to new statistics. Daiily News.

Every 35 seconds a child in California is born into poverty, with more than one-fifth of the state's children now living in impoverished conditions - up from 17 percent in 2006.

Those statistics were released in connection with the third annual MENDing Poverty Conference Wednesday in Pacoima that attracted almost 200 officials and advocates from regional antipoverty agencies and social service nonprofit groups.